CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...
... (HOMA), organized a side event on "Testimonies of Affected Communities: Collective reflections towards the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations with respect to Human Rights"
Marta Rivas from ...
... on Metals Mining, a coalition the arrested men helped build, with its annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
The collective demand that Bukele's government "drop the charges against the five water ...
... process. Julio González, from the Guatemalan MadreSelva environmental collective, explained that “instead of an update, a process to present the EIA for the new, different project should have been open." ...
... declared Honduras responsible for the violation of the right to collective property to the prejudice of the Garífuna communities of Punta Piedra and Triunfo de la Cruz. So far, the Honduran State has not ...
... but the supply systems for populations should be collective, not for profit and capable of providing water in sufficient quantity and quality for the communities. The community water systems are a good ...
... to resource extraction projects on their territories.
This solidarity should be grounded in meaningful relationship building, and can take on many tangible forms— such as collective divestment from the ...
... these injustices take on a new urgency. Our future standard of living—even for those in wealthy areas like, say, Texas or California—is now tied to our collective ability to conserve some environmental ...
... Broad and Cavanagh wisely question the legitimacy of institutions like the ICSID and the rules they seek to enforce: “Why did a panel of three well-paid ICSID arbitrators—who … collectively made over $1.2 ...
... which emphasizes individual freedoms and protects private property. This individualist approach to subjective rights contrasts with current international attempts to increase protection of collective interests ...
... collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination. As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s ...
... that Canadian giant Goldcorp (since merged to form part of a US company called Newmont) had illegally purchased collective lands, they shut down the mine for 83 days to achieve a better land-use agreement. ...
... Court on Human Rights (IACHR) that ruled that the government had violated collective ownership rights after it sold Garífuna land to developers without consultation. The judgment demanded that the government ...
... company damaging the Guapinol river and continue to face harassment and threats.
All of the Guapinol detainees have been formally recognised in Honduran law, both individually and collectively, as human ...
... mining corporations will not deliver a future for the Global South that ensures good food, clean air and water, healthy communities, and planetary survival. However, the health-centered struggles and collective ...
... of the Madre Selva collective, pointed out that the intentions of the state of siege, promoted by large landowners, is to strip communities of natural resources. "First, landowners who want to expel communities ...
... as you know even in the Philippines they are nourished by you and by that collective voice initiated by Marcelo. As you know, there are dozens of demands at ICSID on countries by extractive companies, ...
... Latin Americans in search of equity for health and collective well-being rights. "To this environmental crisis, the added crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic also impacts us nationally and internationally. ...
... In that regard, we must find collective solutions to defend human rights" Pedro Cabezas told GatoEncerrado.
Environmental defenders believe that the governments of their countries benefit mining projects, ...
... developed agrarian reform laws, giving collective land to thousands of farmers organized in farming cooperatives. In 1992 the Law for Land Modernization gave way to the formation of large private monopolies ...